Question: Hello there. So I’ve been using my WD Black 1TB for 5 years now and it hasn’t fail yet until I bought a SSD to speed up my PC. After I plug in the SSD And disconnected the hard drive. I install Windows 10 as normal and install some programs on it. I decided to boot up to the hard drive and it boot as normal, but after I restart my PC and boot into the hard drive, it doesn’t want to boot. The bios wasn’t detecting the hard drive but, when I disconnect the SSD and plug in the hard drive, the bios shows the hard drive. I tried installing Windows on it but the installation is loading very slowly. I don’t have any important file on the hard drive.
What is the culprit here?
Answer:if both SSDs and the optical drive work fine on the SATA controller than your HD is just bad.
there’s a possibility it just has corrupt data on it that is causing issues.
and if it still has it’s old system partitions located on it, that can cause Windows to load incorrectly(or not at all) when it is plugged in.
SATA data ports can be used as hot swappable.
make sure the HD has it’s power cable attached but data cable detached.
after Windows loads up, then plug the SATA data cable into the HD and see if it pops up as a readable device.
if it does, copy anything you need from it and perform a full wipe of the drive deleting all partitions and data and doing a full format.
then restart see if Windows will load with it properly connected.